Aliza “Alice” Napartivaumnuay (Thailand)

Co-founder, Socialgiver

Biography:

Through Thailand-based Socialgiver — an innovative solution that helps consumers, businesses and social projects work together to create positive social impact — Alice is helping to revolutionize fundraising by tapping into consumer spending power. Socialgiver.com is an online giving ecosystem that provides “a lifestyle with a social twist” by selling products and services from leading brands at exclusive rates. When consumers spend on Socialgiver, their money directly supports local social projects that are creating meaningful impact.

Alice’s philosophy is that sustainable change must happen through public participation. “Balancing the social and business side is very important,” she explains. “It’s not just the social aspect. You need to see it as a business and run it like one. The financial, technical and marketing aspects alongside the operations of being consumer centric are all very important. Social enterprises need to be sustainable ourselves in order to create the change that we wish to see in the world.”

Amarit Charoenphan (Thailand)

CEO/Co-founder, HUBBA Thailand

Biography:

Startup and Entrepreneur Ecosystem Leader, Amarit Charoenphan acts as current CEO/ Co-founder of HUBBA Thailand and co-founder of Techsauce. Selected to lead as an Edmund Hillary Fellowship recipient for his work in developing Thailand’s startup Ecosystem, Amarit pioneered the coworking movement and innovated how the real-estate industry and community-building drives entrepreneurship in Thailand. Amarit leads as a community builder, teacher, and advocate for the Thai ecosystem, and works to foster a community of engaged and passionate entrepreneurs in order to create global impact.

More on Amarit’s big room here

Anna Crago (Thailand)

Regional Partnerships Specialist, UNICEF

Biography:

Anna has worked in the non-profit area for 10 years, with a long-term specialization in major gifts. In Australia she raised money for the environment, and for international water and sanitation projects. At UNICEF in Geneva she worked globally to build capacity in major donor fundraising and has been directly involved in raising more than $20m in pledges for UNICEF. Alongside this, she recently completed a Masters of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development, fuelled by an interest in human behaviour and a blithe disregard for sleep.

With a background as a book publisher, Anna also has a strong grasp on marketable narrative, creating a vision and how to deal with tense negotiations — all useful skills for a major donor fundraiser. Anna is currently based in Bangkok as UNICEF’s regional partnerships specialist, working across the Asia-Pacific region.

More about Anna’s masterclass here

More on Anna’s workshops here and here

Arfat Ashraf (Pakistan)

Chief Executive, Together

Biography:

Arfat is a passionate fundraiser and a social enterprise development professional with 25 years of experience working with nonprofits on the sustainability and institutionalization of giving. He has been a professional fundraiser since 1995 and started his own consultancy in 2002, which is  considered a pioneer in fundraising models. He helped the paradigm shift in the thinking and giving pattern in his country, which is considered one of the most active philanthropic countries in Asia.

To date, more than 40 organisations that change lives have had transformational impact through his expertise. He addressed each organisation’s immediate funding needs through the use of fundraising “best practices” and proactive strategic counsel. His past and current partners include some of the largest and oldest medical institutions in Asia.

Arfat has been an active contributor in different  social enterprise forums including Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the Lahore University of Management Sciences Pakistan. His latest venture in this chain of transformation was the establishment and heading of the Resource Development Department at the Karachi School for Business & Leadership (KSBL) – an affiliation of University of Cambridge, London – where he served as director of resource mobilisation.

Arfat devised and implemented an innovative fundraising model that has generated millions in much needed funds helping thousands of deserving people. He loves sharing his knowledge and experiences and hopes to create a much larger impact with his model for other Third world countries.

More on Arfat’s workshop here

Aseem K. Thakur (Singapore)

CEO, GIVE.asia

Biography:

Aseem is the co-founder of GIVE.asia, Asia’s leading charity and personal crowdfunding platform that has raised over S$ 30 million dollars for social causes. He also runs Givola Labs which is a digital innovation consultancy that is built on a simple business model of doing interesting work for interesting clients. He is a regular speaker at international nonprofit technology-related conferences and has co-authored articles in a charity fundraising book published by Resource Alliance. GIVEasia has won several awards including SPRING NTU Ideas.inc challenge, President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Special Mention Award and PACT Incubator Programme by DBS Foundation. Aseem did his Bachelors degree as a Singapore Airlines scholar from the National University of Singapore and studied technology entrepreneurship from Stanford University. He is a Karate black belt, enjoys playing soccer and co-inventor of two patents from his days working at a biomedical device startup in Silicon Valley. 

Learn more about Aseem’s #FRO 2019 session –

Online giving trends in South East Asia: The state of affairs in this hugely culturally diverse region 

Atsuko Allison Ueda (Japan)

COO / Head of Fundraising, Japan for UNHCR

Biography:

Atsuko has been fundraising internationally for over 10 years, with experience in Thailand, USA, and Japan. She is currently the COO and Head of Fundraising at Japan for UNHCR with programmes in digital, direct mail, telemarketing, face to face, middle donors, legacy, fundraising communication, and leadership giving with corporations, foundations, and major donors. Her expertise is focused on raising the lifetime value of donors through journey mapping and data analysis of donor development and stewardship. Previously, she also directed programmes on leadership giving, government-donor relations, and financial management.

Her portfolio ranges from the establishment of small non-profit organisations in the US to securing multi-year funding for local community-based organisations led by migrants and refugees in Mae Sot, Thailand. With an academic background in International Relations and Intercultural Communication, her fundraising priorities include community empowerment, grassroots organising, and the delivering of local voices directly into the minds and hearts of contributing donors. 

Learn more about Atsuko’s IFC 2019 masterclass –

Design your donor experience: Empathise, analyse, create, test, and deploy

Learn more about Atsuko’s IFC 2019 workshops –

Supporter experience design thinking: Twelve countries, twelve workshops, twelve months later – lessons learned from the UNHCR on adopting design thinking and journey mapping

Culture Club 2.0: The connection between culture and our ability to thrive!

Beth Kanter (USA)

Speaker, Author, Virtual Facilitator, and Trainer ,bethkanter.org

Biography:

Beth is an author, virtual facilitator and trainer and is internationally recognised thought leader in digital transformation and wellbeing in the workplace with over 35 years of providing capacity building for nonprofits and foundations. She named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation,” Beth is the co-author of the award winning Network Nonprofit books and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout (http://bit.ly/happyhealthynpbook). Her clients include Packard Foundation Resilience Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Save the Children, Counterpart International, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others.

Click here to find out more about Beth’s session: “The future of giving”

Bill Toliver (USA)

The Matale Line

Biography:

With a degree in Systems Engineering and a 30-year track record in strategy and communications, Bill has a global reputation as a transformational change agent. After two decades developing leadership, branding and communications programs for Fortune 500 clients, Bill founded a social enterprise to bring innovative strategies to NGOs, foundations and civil society organizations. 

His work helps nonprofits, foundations and social enterprises reframe their approach to strategic decision-making, resource development, and communications, and he is privileged to have served a wide range of clients — from Oprah Winfrey to UNICEF, from Habitat for Humanity to the World Food Programme.

Bill is a widely sought after speaker for his unconventional world view, and unique approach to storytelling. His desire to affect change is deeply rooted in his personal experiences growing up in the developing world.

Borie Yi Han (South Korea)

Country Representative, DTV Korea

Biography:

Borie is a young, enthusiastic fundraiser working with and for people she likes, and causes she admires. Starting out as a fundraiser working for World Vision and UNHCR, she now runs the Korean office of DTV Group, an international fundraising direct response TV (DRTV) and film agency. She loves helping good causes raise money cost effectively.

Over the last five years, Borie has set up and launched a multimillion dollar (DRTV) programme at UNHCR and a small-scale but extremely successful programme at Concern as an insider. She has also helped WWF, Oxfam and Amnesty successfully launch and expand their DRTV programmes at DTV Korea.

She works for charities with various beautiful causes, and works with the best performing call centre and media agencies.

More on Borie’s workshop here.

Cherisse Faith Beh (Singapore)

Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre

Biography:

A former journalist and creative head, Cherisse now puts the skills she has picked up over the years in encouraging people to give back, transforming intent into action – to create a society that is driven by compassion and empowerment to nurture a City of Good.

She also leads Giving Week, which is part of the global Giving Tuesday Movement. In Singapore, it is a week-long celebration of the spirit of giving, where brands, non-profits and people give and share their time, talent, treasure and voice to support any cause or issue they are passionate about in all ways big and small.

In addition, she is also involved in other NVPC’s key initiatives such as Company of Good, Colabs, SG Cares, Center for Non-Profit Leadership – which aim to enhance both the capability and capacity of non-profits and corporates in the giving space.

Creative yet rational, she is a realistic idealist who finds inspiration in the everyday.

More on Cherisse’s masterclass here

More on Cherisse’s workshop here

Courtney Savie Lawrence (Thailand)

Ecosystem Builder, Co-founder and Advisor, DSIL Global

Biography:

Courtney is a global connector and social entrepreneur focused on accelerating ecosystems, social innovation and applied design thinking through her work as a consultant and educator. She’s lived in Central and South America, the US and Southern Africa, yet for the past five years she’s been Asia-based working in the social impact sector as a university lecturer and the co-founder of DSIL Global. She is a current Vital Voices Fellow, faculty member at the Thammasat University Global Studies and Social Entrepreneurship Program, the Amsterdam-based THNK School of Creative Leadership for in-company programs and she volunteers her time as an advisory board member to the Frontier Innovators DFAT program. Since 2016 she has also worked with the MIT International Development Design Summits, by co-leading in the Colombia, Thailand and Australia programs. From 2006-2014 she also served on the Executive Committee of the of the Swiss-based NGO, World Alliance of YMCAs as a global representative of the North America region. Previous to co-founding a US social enterprise dedicated to creating a hub for closed loop systems and sustainability entrepreneurs, she worked with Ashoka’s Full Economic Citizenship initiative in Washington, D.C.

More on Courtney’s masterclass here

More on Courtney’s big room here

Emily Au-Young (Bangladesh)

Founder and CEO, Reemi

Biography:

Emily has a heart for strategic partnerships that cross the norms into finding a better fusion between non-profit and for-profit partnerships. She is the founder of Reemi, a social enterprise creating sustainable products for women’s health in Asia and the Pacific.

Hailing from New Zealand, Emily began her career by looking for fusion between charity and business. She founded a social enterprise, twoWORLDS – a fashion label for social good. Through fashion, she fell into the buying world and realised that the world needs more help than clothes. Moving to Hong Kong four years ago to join Crossroads Foundation as Communications and Fundraising Manager, she has used her creative and analytical mind to help create change. Emily has also served as a board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Hong Kong. 

Learn more about Emily’s IFC 2019 workshops –

Make an offer that businesses can’t refuse: Unlock your organisation’s value to develop high-impact, win-win corporate relationships

Culture Club 2.0: The connection between culture and our ability to thrive!

Fasai Pongpitaksopon (Singapore)

Growth Lead, Workplace by Facebook

Biography:

Fasai Pongpitaksopon leads growth for Workplace by Facebook in Southeast Asia. Workplace is a leading communications platform used by over 30,000 organizations globally to enable faster collaboration and better engagement amongst employees. In the nonprofit sector in APAC, organizations such as BRAC, Ambulance Victoria, Share the Dignity, Tata Trusts and eVidyaloka have joined the likes of Save the Children and WWF in integrating Workplace as part of their digital transformation journey to better connect their staff across regions and countries globally.

Fasai holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics and International Relations from Knox College, and an MPP from the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, and has previously worked on economic development and impact evaluation projects at the Aspen Institute, Aga Khan Foundation and UNESCAP.

More on Fasai’s big room here

Fiona (Fi) McPhee (New Zealand)

Director, Fiona McPhee Ltd

Biography:

Fi (Fiona) McPhee loves fundraising. She’s been at it for 20 years and is still smiling. Fi is a coach, consultant & trainer to fundraisers and not-for-profit leaders. She works with fundraisers to help them drive sustainable fundraising programs and with bosses and boards to seek the right insight to best manage and govern fundraising within their organisations. Fi brings to the party her love of data. Having lead Australia & New Zealand’s largest fundraising benchmarking and analytics program for over a decade, Fi’s insight into fundraising performance and how donors behave is unparalleled. As a speaker and trainer Fi draws on best practice methodologies as well as her experience and insights from her time working with hundreds of charities from across New Zealand, Australia, South East Asia and North America. In addition to her day job, Fi is a Mum, average skier, amateur hiker, serves on two not-for-profit boards and is the Resource Alliance Australia & New Zealand ambassador.

Click here to find out more about Fiona’s session: “Five key learnings from fundraising through a crisis”

Gillian Tan (Singapore)

Digital Strategist, National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre

Biography:

A digital strategist at the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, Gillian works on digital campaigns such as Giving Week, and for the last 3 years, on marketing Singapore’s first one-stop giving platform, Giving.sg.

A true blue millennial, she spends her office and out-of-office hours on social media, putting the ‘fun in fundraising’ by creating content that is relevant, compelling and informative. Think GIFs and emailers that raise over $80,000 for disaster-relief! But her work isn’t just about coming up with witty campaign slogans – she also pours over data that track and measure the effectiveness of her campaigns.

In her free time, she loves reading marketing emails for #inspo, taking Boomerangs of her dog and tutoring underprivileged children.

More on Gillian’s masterclass here

More on Gillian’s workshop here

Godi Li (Hong Kong)

Regional Individual Giving Manager, The Fred Hollows Foundation HK

Biography:

Godi is currently the regional individual giving manager of The Fred Hollows Foundation HK. She has an academic background in statistics, and a passion for contributing to community in fundraising and direct marketing. Godi has developed strong relationships with different NGOs, which allow her to keep up to date with industry trends. She specialises in applying her expertise and market knowledge to developing individual giving programs. She is also a board member for the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Hong Kong Chapter, the first Hong Kong scholar to attend the AFP Fundraising Conference in the US, and an active member of  the Hong Kong Face-to-Face Alliance.

More about Godi’s workshop here

Dr. Hartini Zainudin (Malaysia)

Co-Founder, Yayasan Chow Kit

Biography:

Dr. Hartini Zainudin is a child activist but works currently a consultant for farious government and UN organizations. She is the co founder of Yayasan Chow Kit (formerly known as NurSalam) and served as the Head of Advocacy and Funding as well as the Outreach program in Chow Kit. She is also the Vice President of Voice of the Children, a local NGO that does advocacy work, law and policy reforms and training on children’s issues.

Hartini was also a member of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development’s National Advisory Council on the Welfare and Protection of Children and is a member of a number of national task forces- Child Protection Policy Training, on issues of Trafficking, Stateless Children and the Malaysian Adoption System as well as on different initiatives on child’s rights and protection.

Hartini received her BA and M.Sc in English and English Education, respectively, and has her Doctorate in Monitoring and Assessment (Education) from Columbia University, New York.

More on Dr Hartini’s workshop here

Hema Balasundaram (Malaysia)

Cinematographer

Biography:

Hema has been working in fundraising, storytelling and content creation for seven years. She is as comfortable with a pen as she is with a camera. She will share the secrets of building stories from the ground up. Hema is a copywriter, has a background in film and television production with a focus in cinematography, and has worked on television programmes, documentaries and narrative films in her native Malaysia and in the United States. Prior to joining UNICEF’s Global Fundraising Engagement Team, Hema worked for UNICEF in Malaysia, the Philippines and Ethiopia, creating content that has been widely shared through global channels.

More on Hema’s masterclass here

More on Hema’s workshop here

Jack Sim (Singapore)

Founder of the World Toilet Organisation

Biography:

Jack has been a successful businessman since age 24. He retired at age 40 to become a social entrepreneur, and his journey found him acting as a champion for the dignity, rights and health of the vulnerable and poor worldwide.

Jack discovered that toilets were often neglected and grew concerned that the topic was often shrouded in embarrassment and apathy in Singapore — talking toilets was taboo! – and felt this led to the neglect of restrooms island wide. In 1998, he established the Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS) to raise the standards of public toilets in Singapore and around the world.

Through RAS, Jack’s vision was to put Singapore on the “world map” by taking the initiative to provide clean public toilets. As Jack began his work in Singapore, he realized there were other existing toilet associations operating in other countries. To create synergy among those associations, he founded the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) in 2001 and the World Toilet College (WTC) in 2005.

Jack’s work has garnered him many awards and honors: He was given the Singapore Green Plan Award by Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) for his contribution to the environment in 2004, and named Time Magazine’s Hero of Environment in 2008. In 2006, Jack was invited to launch The German Toilet Organisation in Berlin, and he is a founding member of the American Restroom Association. In 2007, he became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), comprised of more than 130 organisations active in the sanitation sector. Jack is also an Ashoka Global Fellow and sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils (GAC) for Water Security and also the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship. He is also the founder of UN World Toilet Day (19 November).

Jason Noble (Hong Kong)

Engagement Strategist, Crossroads Foundation

Biography:

Jason Noble leads corporate engagement for Crossroads Foundation and is president of Crossroads Global Village (US) Limited. Prior to Crossroads, Jason was an emerging market investor with a focus on Asia. He leverages his investment background to co-develop mutually beneficial relationships between companies and communities. Jason holds a Master of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Arizona. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and four boys

More on Jason’s masterclass here

More on Jason’s workshop here

Jeroninio (Jerry) Francisco Torquato Almeida (India)

Creator and founder of Joy of Giving, RighteveryWrong, Rex, Karmaveer Awards, moJosh movement and Swachh Bharat Mission

Biography:

Fundraising is a passion and avocation for Jerry. He conceptualised and created THE JOY OF GIVING mission which has now inspired Giving Tuesdays, The Joy of Sharing, The Joy of Giving week and other giving initiatives around the world. Jerry also started the concept of Direct Giving Agencies in India and today through Direct Giving Agencies on India causes (including UN organisations like UNICEF and INGOs like Save The Children, Plan, Greenpeace, CRY, CONCERN) are raising over 1000 crores Indian Rupees ( USD 150 mn. approx) per annum. Jerry has worked as a Fundraising Consultant and Coach with several international NGOs like GreenPeace, ChildFund, Amnesty International, Plan International, Save The Children, AnimalAid, Aide et Accion, Medecins Sans Frontiers, The Leprosy Mission, Public Health Foundation of India, Hemophilia Federation and Grassroots NGOs like WOTR, Dalit Voluntary Association Foundation, Biswa, Deepalaya, BNVGN, Parivaar and several other small NGOs and CBOs across India. Besides producing and promoting EK ALAG MAUSAM the first Bollywood movie to mainstream the need of dignity of people living with HIV, Jerry also co-produced the first crowdfunded movie in the world , I AM that addressed 4 social issues single parenting, communal conflict, criminalisation of homosexuals and child sex abuse. Jerry comes with a lot of passion for fundraising and believes that Fundraisers are the most important cause ambassadors and deserve to be given their true space in the sun.

Jerry’s purpose in life is to enable each one of us to discover the hero in me, by inspiring you to unleash your infnite potential to change your life and in turn to change the world for the better. I change to change India and the world is Jerry’s simple mantra. Jerry is a internationally celebrated and much sought Leadership Coach, Management Consultant, Motivational / Inspirational Orator and Master Storyteller.

As a Life and Executive Coach Jerry has worked with several CEOs/CXOs, a few politicians and young parliamentarians and movie & sport stars. Jerry recently signed the biggest and most unique publishing deal in India for 12 crores with his bestselling Karma Kurry – Te hero in me book series and decided to give all the royalties to social causes. Jerry is also a firebrand crusader, champion for change, social activist, philanthropist, UN advisor and missionary entrepreneur who conceptualized and created huge global movements like The Joy of Giving, Right every Wrong, Karmaveer Global Awards, Swachh Bharat Mission and REX-not just talks , ideas for action- the first and wisdom sharing and culturetainment event. Jerry has enthralled audiences ranging from corporate executives to world leaders, teachers, parents, students and entrepreneurs around the world in conferences organized by the World Economic Forum, UN, Rotary International, World Affairs Council, US Consulate and several Ivy league Institutes. Jerry is the first author who was signed up as a brand ambassador for several exclusive brands. Jerry is also the only Leadership Coach who is exclusively invited by the Armed Forces of India to be em-paneled as their visiting faculty and lecturer to coach officers in the Army, Navy , Air-force and other security bodies.

More on Jerry’s Keynote here

Jillian Stewart (Netherlands)

Founder & Senior Consultant, PeerWorks Consulting

Biography:

Jillian has developed, executed, and managed award-winning fundraising and communications strategies for some of the largest peer-to-peer fundraising events in the USA and, more recently, in Europe. In 2014 she founded PeerWorks, an international consultancy based in Amsterdam, in order to meet the demands for this fast-growing, innovative form of fundraising. The team at Peerworks has over 30 years of experience helping charities inspire and empower their supporters to raise significant funds and awareness on their behalf. Not only do Jillian and her colleagues love giving advice about peer-to-peer fundraising, but they also enjoy doing it! Jillian has personally raised over €20.000 for a variety of causes and charities she cares deeply about.

More on Jillian’s masterclass here

Jo Garner (Australia)

Director, Strategic Grants Pty Ltd.; Co-founder, Women & Change

Biography:

Jo Garner is the director of strategic grants and a founding member of Queensland’s first women’s giving circle, Women & Change. Strategic Grants works with non-profits across New Zealand and Australia to build effective grant seeking strategies and has worked on successful philanthropic grants and government tenders ranging from $5000 to $50M. Jo has been a professional fundraiser since 1994 and started providing professional grant services to charities in 2002. In 2017 she won the Arthur Venn Fundraiser of the Year Award. Over the years, Jo has identified key areas where non-profits need assistance and advice when establishing, reviewing and building an effective grants program. Jo is also a regular conference presenter on the grant-seeking process at conferences and facilitates regular workshops for individual charities as well as the sector at large.

Joseph Scaria (Philippines)

Area Director of Resource Development for Asia Pacific, Habitat for Humanity International

Biography:

Joseph has more than 23 years of experience in marketing, resource mobilization, program development and management, creative and innovative enterprise planning, training and capacity building, grassroots communication and implementing social development projects in various countries in the Asia Pacific region and Africa.

He is a promoter of corporate social responsibility and provides leadership for social enterprises and social businesses. As area director for development for the Asia Pacific region of Habitat for Humanity, Joseph facilitates strategies in the region to build the organisation’s resource base. He also extends his time to other NGOs as an honorary advisor on resource mobilization strategy development and training. Joseph is a graduate of the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, and the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.  

More on Joseph’s workshop here

Jun Mo Lee (South Korea)

Country Manager, Concern Worldwide Korea

Biography:

Jun Mo has been working as Country Manager at Concern Worldwide Korea since June 2015. South Korea office is the first Asian branch of 50 years old Irish humanitarian aid agency, Concern Worldwide. As the first country manager, he has set the whole organization from fundraising to donor journey. Prior to take up this current role in Concern Worldwide, he has dedicated his whole career for developing non-profit sector with expertise in strategy, management, and fundraising over 17 years. He has worked at various organizations such as international NGO (Habitat for Humanity Korea), international organization (International Vaccine Institute), universities, hospitals, foundations and NGOs. His keywords are international development, social change, global citizenship, and humor for all.

More about Jun’s workshop here

Kait Sheridan (Hong Kong)

Director, digital strategy, Giving Tuesday

Biography:

Kait Sheridan manages the community of Global Leaders and digital communications for #GivingTuesday. Kait first joined 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact team in 2013, where she worked on #GivingTuesday, the Social Good Summit, 92Y Fellowship programs, and other strategic initiatives. In 2016, Kait’s personal life took her to the UK and then Asia, where she continues to work on #GivingTuesday with a focus on expanding the Global Leader community. She has worked on a number of award-winning social media campaigns, leadership programs, and strategic initiatives with NGOs around the globe, and advises a number of startups and companies on their corporate CSR and fundraising programs. Kait currently lives in Hong Kong.

Dr Kanchada Piriyarangsan (Thailand)

National Director, Community Children Foundation

Biography:

Dr. Piriyarangsan has been the national director of the Community Children Foundation Thailand since 2000. CCF Thailand provides assistance to over 95,000 children and its through sponsorship program helps 50,000 needy children in Thailand with support from both the Thai and international communities. Under Dr. Piriyarangsan’s leadership, CCF Thailand has gone from being dependent on funds from partners overseas to being largely funded by Thais. Today CCF Thailand raises over $US12 million through its local fundraising program, which is over 85 percent of the organisation’s funding. Dr. Piriyarangsan is also board secretary on the National Council for Child and Youth Development Under the Royal Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

More on Dr. Piriyarangsan’s workshop here.

Kate Sturla (India)

Associate Director, IDinsight

Biography:

Kate Sturla is an Associate Director at IDinsight. Kate leads IDinsight’s evaluation of the Educate Girls Development Impact Bond (DIB), the world’s first DIB; and has managed evaluations of education, agriculture and health interventions across India. Prior to joining IDinsight, Kate worked on education projects in India and Peru and oversaw impact evaluations of public health interventions in India.

Kate holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and South Asian Studies from University of California, Berkeley and an MPA in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard Kennedy School.

More on Kate’s masterclass here

More on Kate’s big room here

Kathleen Kelly Janus (USA)

Author & Lecturer, Stanford University

Biography:

Kathleen Kelly Janus is a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University. As an expert on philanthropy, millennial engagement and scaling early stage organizations, her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the co-founder of Spark, the largest network of millennial donors in the world. Based in the heart of the Silicon Valley, her bestselling book, Social Startup Success, features best practices for early stage nonprofit organizations based on a five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top-performing social entrepreneurs.

More about Kathleen’s workshop here.

Katy Grennier (Thailand)

CEO, Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership - DSIL Global

Biography:

Katy is an experienced alternative educator, trained coach and well-versed practitioner who has had the great privilege of traveling the globe to serve all sectors to teach the process of Human-Centered Design (HCD) / design thinking. In everything she does, she intentionally encourages diverse groups to come together to collaborate in ways that can move them forward faster by listening deeper than ever before. In fact, she started a company around this.

For the last four years, Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership (DSIL Global) has been re-writing the possibility of new narratives for international development that have embedded stories of HCD coming alive in local contexts, focusing on Southeast Asia. Through HCD, individuals, teams and companies organically solve complex problems or create richer programs and products by including everyone, from donors to the people benefiting from the services.

More on Katy’s masterclass here

More on Katy’s workshops here and here

Kavita Mathew (India)

India Partnerships Consultant, GlobalGiving

Biography:

Kavita helps GlobalGiving increase its reach and impact in India, drawing from her experience of working with multiple nonprofits in the country. Before discovering her passion for making the world a better place, Kavita spent two years with Goldman Sachs, where she found her love for spreadsheets and data. She then earned her stripes at a grassroot-level nonprofit organization called Dream A Dream and later took to consulting to widen the impact of her work. Her passion for social development, enthusiasm to explore the path less trodden, and love for India, eventually brought her to her current role with GlobalGiving. Outside of GlobalGiving, she finds other ways to stay stimulated, by playing fundraising consultant to nonprofits, being a sounding board to her start-up stage entrepreneurial friends, and eating lots of dark chocolate. A believer in life-long learning, she recently completed her Post Graduation in ‘Child Rights Law’ from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

More on Kavita’s workshop here

Kevin Bruggink (Netherlands)

Head of Innovation, Social Blue

Biography:

By constantly staying up to date with online developments within social advertising and keeping in touch with Facebook directly, Kevin ensures Social Blue is the first to make use of trends within lead generation through Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

More on Kevin’s Power Hour session here

Kevin Teo (Singapore)

Managing Director, Knowledge Centre, AVPN

Biography:

Kevin Teo is Managing Director of AVPN’s Knowledge Centre. Prior to that, he was a Co-Founder of Volans, a Social Innovation company with offices in London and Singapore. Kevin was previously Head of East and Southeast Asia at the Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Prior to that, Kevin had a nine year stint in the enterprise software arena in Silicon Valley, Irvine and Austin. This included work at two Sequoia Capital startups that were acquired by Sun Microsystems and Symantec respectively.

More on Kevin’s workshop here

Leo Orland (Australia)

Managing Director, Total Fundraising

Biography:

For 37 years Leo has helped raise millions of dollars for various causes in Australia and internationally. His work involves him in strategic planning, implementation of direct marketing programs, major donor development, bequest programs, development of monthly giving programs, fundraising audits, and training of fundraisers. Previously he was the Relationship Marketing Manager for World Vision Australia for 14 years; Marketing Director for World Vision Thailand for two years. Has worked extensively in Asia including fundraising training, in India, Thailand, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore.

Leo is a Fellow of Fundraising Institute of Australia (FIA), a past Chairman of FIA, past member of the CFRE board, past chair of the CFRE exam committee. In 2013 he was named the Arthur Venn Fundraiser of the Year, a national award from the FIA which recognises an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to fundraising in Australia.

More on Leo’s workshop here.

Liu Yan (Singapore)

Cofounder & Chief Impact Officer, School of Gumption

Biography:

Liu Yan is an award-winning social entrepreneur who has been advocating the new way of working and learning since 2004. In 2016, Liu Yan cofounded School of Gumption with Jack Sim, aiming to develop youth and young professionals to drive change with heart and entrepreneurial dare. She established China’s first coworking center Xindanwei listed by Fastcompany as “The World’s Top 10 most innovative company in China”. She was part of the founding team of Xinchejian, the pioneer of Asia’s maker movement. Liu Yan was also the cofounder and chief curator of China Australian Millennium Project (C.A.M.P), a unique 100-day incubator program designed to train, mentor and empower emerging young Australian and Chinese leaders and entrepreneurs. She is also an experienced design thinking facilitator and program designer.

More on Liu’s workshop here

Maitra Widiantini Faiszal (Indonesia)

Fundraising Marketing and Communication Director, Save the Children in Indonesia

Biography:

Maitra has more than 12 years’ experiences in fundraising, and communications and management, and has successfully built and implemented fundraising programs for major domestic and international NGOs in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam. She was the Fundraising Development Advisor for WWF Greater Mekong and Deputy Director of Fund Development and Communications for SOS Children’s Villages Asia. Currently, she works at Save the Children Indonesia as Fundraising, Marketing, and Communication Director.

With a mission to contribute to Indonesia’s resource mobilisation’s development, Maitra also co-founded FriendraisingID with three other professionals in fundraising and communication in 2015. Together they support local and international NGOs in developing fundraising, change management, and communication strategies.

More on Maitra’s Masterclass here.

More about Maitra’s workshop here.

Marco Kuntze (UK)

Resource Alliance Board Member and Digital Fundraising Specialist, Relishing Digital

Biography:

Marco is an expert in peer-to-peer fundraising, bringing together a unique expertise and hands-on experience of digital fundraising, strategic insights, marketing and how to raise money from large numbers of people. 

Before becoming an independent consultant, he worked for eight years at JustGiving, the leading P2P fundraising platform that has raised $4.5 billion for good causes in 164 countries. During that time he shaped the online fundraising of some of the world-leading digital fundraising campaigns such as Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life and has helped to raise tens of millions for charities annually.

Marco is passionate about helping charities build capacity and take advantage of technological innovations to raise more money and reach more people. 

He is a board member of The Resource Alliance and was the chair for the organisation’s Fundraising Online web conference.

More on Marco’s masterclass here

More on Marco’s workshop here

Mariel Bertumen (Philippines)

Social Impact Sr. Regional Manager, Oracle NetSuite

Biography:

Mariel Bertumen is a Social Impact Manager at Oracle NetSuite and has over 15+ years in the cloud technology space. Most recently, she has been interested in the intersection of cloud technology for social change. She is leading Oracle NetSuite Social Impact in Asia Pacific as well as the management of over 1000+ nonprofits leveraging NetSuite for their mission globally. Her group empowers nonprofits around the globe to benefit from Oracle NetSuite’s software donation. Prior to joining Oracle NetSuite, she has worked for a BPO company supporting QuickBooks customers for almost 5 years giving her enough familiarity and knowledge to articulate traditional IT vs. Cloud technology.

She has a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Saint Louis University. She is currently taking up her Master’s in Business Administration at Ateneo de Manila Graduate School of Business.

More on Mariel’s big room here

Martin Paul (Australia)

Director, More Strategic

Biography:

Martin is one of Australia’s most respected fundraisers and presenters. Fascinated by why people do what they do, Martin has conducted more than 40 research studies into donor behaviour and helped over 100 not-for-profits to develop effective strategies driven by powerful insights.

More on Martin’s masterclass here

More on Martin’s workshop here

Mary Lynn (ML) Lalonde (Switzerland)

Global Fundraising Engagement Manager, UNICEF

Biography:

Mary Lynn (ML) is an unapologetic fundraiser, communications professional and shameless idealist with more than 25 years of experience creating compelling and award-winning actionable content. She loves it when the good guys win. (Hint: You are the good guys.) As global fundraising engagement manager at UNICEF in Geneva, she helps shape the narrative for fundraisers and has led storytelling missions to at least 17 countries. Along with colleagues around the world, ML helped drive a central galvanizing moment for UNICEF on 20 November 2017 (World Children’s Day), with a story that resonated in 140 countries, was re-tweeted by the Pope and trended #2 on Twitter globally.

Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed (Hong Kong)

Director of Research, Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society

Biography:

Ms. Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed has extensive experience in research and analysis across public finance, public policy, and economics in the non-profit and for-profit sectors. She has worked for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit at the World Bank, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget under Mayor Bloomberg. She has also taught Economics to undergraduate and MBA students.
Prior to joining CAPS as Director of Research, Mehvesh was working in the strategy consulting and social enterprise space in Hong Kong. Mehvesh was a PhD candidate in Political Economy at Princeton University, holds a Master in Public Affairs in Economic Policy from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics.
Mehvesh speaks Urdu fluently and is conversant in Hindi.

More on Mehvesh’s masterclass here

Michael Gale (USA)

Senior Program Manager, GlobalGiving

Biography:

Michael manages GlobalGiving’s efforts to grow a network of global do-gooders by helping more world-changing nonprofits join the GlobalGiving community. Before becoming a GlobalGiver, Michael supported grassroots nonprofits in Latin America as a program officer with the Global Fund for Children, and he has also dipped his toes in the fields of immigrant legal services and indigenous South American languages. Michael earned bachelor’s degrees in international studies and Spanish studies from American University and his master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside the office, you’re likely to find Michael on stage or in his garden.

Nikki Kinloch (Singapore)

CEO, Simply Giving

Biography:

Based in Singapore, Nikki is the CEO of SimplyGiving (www.simplygiving.com), Asia’s leading online giving website. Established in 2010, with offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, SimplyGiving works with over 65,000 donors and fundraisers and 1,400 Charities, Social Enterprises and Individuals across 20 markets to maximise the ability to donate and fundraise for a cause you care about by combining the power of social media and technology

Nikki holds a Master’s of Science in International Business Economics, a Bachelors of Arts with Honours in Politics and International Economics and a Diploma in Financial Planning.

An accomplished public speaker at events across Asia Pacific and in Europe, Nikki is a Board Member for The International Churchill Society, a member of The United Nations Committee for Women – Singapore, a member of and speaker for The Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) and a speaker and member of RSM Woman on Boards Network.

More about Nikki’s workshop here.

Paola van der Lans (Netherlands)

Associate, PeerWorks Consulting

Biography:

Paola has developed and executed fundraising events in France and the Netherlands, before joining the Amsterdam based international consultancy Peerworks as a consultant. She has extensive experience working with fundraising platforms in the Netherlands, France, USA and Australia.

Considered specialists in their field, Paola and her colleagues help nonprofits grow their community and revenue through peer-to-peer fundraising events and campaigns. Not only does Paola love giving advice about peer-to-peer fundraising, she has a particular love for peer-to-peer fundraising events, and really enjoys bringing communities of fundraisers together!

More on Paola’s workshop here

Payal Randhawa

Executive Director, Resource Alliance India

Biography:

As the Executive Director, Payal ensures The Resource Alliance India is sharply focused on delivering relevant, high-quality services to the non-profit sector. Payal has a deep appreciation of innovative social change models, having worked in India’s dynamic social entrepreneurship sector for over a decade. She has held senior-level positions including serving as Executive Director at the National Association of Social Enterprises, India (NASE) and Director – Social Entrepreneurship at the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation. Payal has a Master’s degree in communications and many films to her credit. Passionate about telling stories of human endeavour, her films have dealt with issues around social change and community development.

GET YOUR IFC ASIA TICKET

More on Payal’s Big Room here

Pesh Framjee (International)

Partner, Global Head of Not for Profits, Crowe Horwath International

Biography:

Pesh is a chartered accountant working in the UK with Crowe Clark Whitehill, which has been recognised by independent surveys as the leading provider of audit and related services to charities. He has been working in the UK for over 35 years, and he writes and lectures internationally on matters facing NGOs and Civil Society. He is an acknowledged expert in the field and a thought leader in areas of financial management, financial reporting, effective governance, strategy, risk management, and performance measurement.

Pesh is a past board member of the Institute of Risk Management and a special advisor to the Charity Finance Group, an umbrella body in the UK with more than 1,350 charities in membership, managing over £21.1 billion.

More on Pesh’s workshop here

Pushpa Aman Singh (India)

Founder and CEO, GuideStar India

Biography:

Pushpa founded GuideStar India (www.guidestarindia.org) in 2009, after 18 years of scaling innovative organisations, including a decade of experience in the financial services sector. She works tirelessly with NGOs to embrace transparency and enhance their capacity to access philanthropic resources. Having vetted more than 6,000 NGOs, Pushpa brings rare insights into India’s complex and diverse NGO sector. Pushpa has conducted numerous multilingual NGO workshops across India, explaining in simple and practical terms the why, what and how of legal compliance and financial transparency. She advised the Charity Commissioner of Maharashtra for digitisation and online administration of charities. Earlier, Pushpa was the COO of GiveIndia, supporting the scaling up of NGOs on India’s first online giving portal. Pushpa is on the Advisory Council of GuideStar US and CII’s Advisory Group & Task Force for its india@75 initiative, Probono Unplugged. She is an MBA Gold Medalist and a Senior Global Fellow of the Synergos Institute, NY.

More on Pushpa’s masterclass here

More on Pushpa’s workshop here

Rajesh Bhattacharjee (India)

General Manager, Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives

Biography:

Anon-profit fundraiser for over two decades; provided fundraising and senior management leadership to top charities like Amnesty, Care and Room to Read.

As the first fundraising director of Amnesty in India, he went on to create a fundraising team of around 120 people and acquired over 95,000 donors in the first 4 years of operation. This was critical for sustainability of the organisation and establish local legitimacy. Amnesty ultimately cemented its India operation after 5 past unsuccessful attempts since 1970. Rajesh was also a part of the global fundraising management team of Amnesty International, which was central to global fundraising strategy and growth plan for the movement on the whole. Also established fundraising operations of Room to Read in India, one of the top most corporate and institutional fundraising charity in India in terms of revenue and conversion.

Studied Masters of Anthropology at Cotton College, Guwahati University, India. At his personal level, he spends a lot of time providing pro bono services to various charities and other organisations; primarily around fundraising strategy, plans, eco system and systemic improvement. He also seats at the Board of an organisation at Delhi called Dwaresh; a story telling organisation around historical walk.

Currently, Rajesh works with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI) at Bengaluru, India. Azim Premji is the top most philanthropist in India in terms of giving. As part of the senior management team at APPI, Rajesh helps small and mid- level organisations to scale up through strategic investments in fundraising and organisation development.

More on Rajesh’s masterclass here

More on Rajesh’s big room here

Reem Abdelhamid (Saudi Arabia)

Lead (Strategic Partnerships, PSP North Africa), UNHCR

Biography:

Reem Abdelhamid is a leading expert in global private philanthropy with more than 25 years of professional experience top donor/family foundations fundraising in the Arab region and, more recently, in Southeast Asia. Reem has worked for UN humanitarian organisations as well as NGOs in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Her areas of expertise include the cultivation and stewardship of donor/family foundations; resource mobilisation; high-level event planning and field visit planning; devising bespoke initiatives; and capacity-building of potential top donor/family foundations’ fundraisers.

Reem’s current role with UNHCR entails developing strategies for private partnerships and philanthropy in North Africa, with a focus on Morocco and Egypt, while retaining the management of some top donor relationships globally. Reem completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and has undertaken research work for the University of Exeter on Social Identity Theory (SIT) and its effect on Arab philanthropy. Reem is a regular speaker at international conferences.

Roshan Paul (India)

Co-founder and CEO, Amani Institute

Biography:

Roshan has spent his life questioning the status quo and has built a career around connecting global citizens to solve social problems across boundaries. He co-founded the Amani Institute, a new model of higher education that develops people who seek careers of meaning and impact, with these values in mind. The seeds of Amani were cultivated while Roshan worked with Ashoka for a decade, where he designed and launched five new programs and managed two other global projects. These included Ashoka’s Peace Initiative (supporting social entrepreneurs in conflict zones) and the Globalizer program (helping social entrepreneurs scale up their innovations).

Raised in Bangalore, India, Roshan has a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, a bachelor’s in international political economy from Davidson College (a degree he self-designed) and a certificate in creative leadership as one of the founding participants of The Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership. He has guest-lectured at over 20 universities in the United States and Europe, including Harvard, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins SAIS and HEC Business School Paris, and is currently a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Behavioral Science.

Roshan delivered the Commencement (graduation) speech at the University of San Diego in May 2015 and a TEDx talk at TEDxAmsterdamEd in April 2016. His writing has been published in Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT’s Innovations Journal, India Today, as well as in the recent book, Dream of a Nation. Roshan has studied and worked on every continent (aside from Antarctica, where he hopes to travel next) and is a hopeless cricket junkie. He is the author of two books: Such a Lot of World, a novel, and Your Work Begins at No, a collection of essays on social impact education.

More about Roshan’s masterclass here

Rupali Babu (India)

Head of Major Donors, Amnesty India

Biography:

Rupali grew up in India on naval bases and considers herself a naval brat. At 20, she set off for the distant shores of Canada in pursuit of educational excellence in business and finance. Armed with a BBA (Trent University, liberal arts school) and an MBA (Carleton University, school for suits), she followed a traditional pathway of working in banking and finance, considering herself to be a serial banker. After nearly 12 years of a successful track record, she returned to India and suddenly found the world was quite literally her oyster.

She accidentally fell into major donor fundraising and has never looked back. Though like many a fundraiser there are days when she wonders what possessed her to move into this role. She enjoys setting up successful major donor fundraising verticals in organisations, especially in challenging markets and for contentious causes. In the recent years, being the busybody that she is, Rupali has started to dabble with organisational development and feels that major donor fundraisers can play a much bigger role.

In her spare time she loves experimenting with cuisines, travel with her husband and giving unsolicited fashion advice.

More about Rupali’s masterclass here

More on Rupali’s workshops here and here

Ruth Shapiro (Hong Kong)

Founder and Chief Executive, Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society

Biography:

Dr. Ruth A. Shapiro is the Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society (CAPS), a non-profit incorporated in Hong Kong in 2014. CAPS (www.caps.org) is committed to increasing the quality and quantity of private social investment in Asia and is a center of excellence which promotes best practices, transparency, good governance and accountability for philanthropy and non-profit management in Asia.

Dr. Shapiro is the primary author of Pragmatic Philanthropy: Asian Charity Explained published by Palgrave Macmillan in January 2018. She was also the editor of The Real Problem Solvers, a book about social entrepreneurship in America, published by Stanford University Press. The Real Problem Solvers with the addition of seven China specific chapters was published in China in March, 2015. Dr. Shapiro has written numerous articles and is a regular speaker on issues related to Asian philanthropy, csr, social innovation and social entrepreneurship in Asia.

Prior to founding CAPS, Ruth Shapiro founded the Asia Business Council (www.asiabusinesscouncil.org) and served as its Executive Director since its inception in 1997 until May 2008. She is now Senior Advisor to the Council. The Asia Business Council is an independent association of chief executive officers from leading Asian companies or multinational corporations with significant Asian operations. In overseeing the Council’s programmatic initiatives and through her consulting work, Dr. Shapiro gained expertise on issues such as corporate social responsibility, scenario planning, education, training and innovation, corporate governance, energy efficiency, social entrepreneurship and Asian regional economic growth and political change.

Dr. Shapiro spent the early part of her professional career in the field of international development. Within this field, she held management positions and built new program areas at the Academy for Educational Development, the Harvard Institute of International Development and Global Outlook.

Dr. Shapiro holds a doctorate from Stanford University and Masters Degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan.

More on Ruth’s masterclass here

Ryan Wilkins (UK)

Founder & CEO, Raw London

Biography:

Ryan Wilkins is the founder and CEO of Raw London, a creative agency transforming the way charities and brands communicate.

Ryan is a regular speaker at industry events across the world, specialising in content and communications in the third sector.

He has a creative background, studying both a BA and MA in Audio Technology before developing a passion for video production.

Day-to-day, he’s the face of Raw – generating and managing new business, facilitating strategic workshops for clients and speaking at industry events.

He’s obsessive about championing informed, strategic and carefully crafted content that delivers on objectives and offers measureable return on investment.

In his spare time, Ryan is a father to two girls, plays bass guitar and divides his sporting loyalty between Brentford and Norwich City football clubs.

Attend Ryan’s session at IFC 2019: The agency / client relationship is broken. How do we fix it?

Safeena Husain (India)

Founder and Executive Director, Educate Girls

Biography:

A London School of Economics graduate, Safeena Husain is the Founder and Executive Director of the international award-winning non-profit organisation – Educate Girls.

Founded in 2007, Educate Girls, partners with the government in boosting development in public schools through community ownership and ensures improved enrollment and retention of girls and learning outcomes for all children.

Since its inception, Educate Girls has consistently scaled its operations and presently works in 21,000 government-run primary schools spread across 15 districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. With support from the government and the community, the organisation has enrolled over 200,000 out-of-school girls achieving over 90% retention and has improved learning outcomes for over 650,000 children so far.

More on Safeena’s Leadership Roundtable here

More on Safeena’s big room here

Sania Khan (Pakistan)

Fundraising Specialist, Happy H. Consulting

Biography:

Sania has over 15 years’ association within the development sector including assignments with WWF Pakistan, where she was Head of Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships for over six years. Sania has made contributions to many global campaigns and has worked with international teams across Asia Pacific. Currently, Sania is an adviser to several NGOs and public institutions on fundraising, communication, and outreach strategies.

On personal front, Sania thoroughly enjoys being a mother to her tech savvy, naughty, and intelligent young child who loves to ask questions. She strongly believe in power of public opinion and engagement to augment support, earn favourable reputation, and raise funds. Sania considers fundraising a glamorous and exciting drive powered by innovation, experimentation, interaction, dedication, and improvisation. She supports social activism and advocacy by remaining informed, relevant, vocal, and present in the broader landscape of society. Sania sees an upright, inspirational, and passionate leadership style, coupled with profound support and ownership for team members, as key for achievement for any fundraising team. Investing in youth to be the agents of change is inevitable for a positive, greater, and sustainable impact on society. Therefore, Sania advocates inclusion and empowerment of youth in all segments and sectors of developmental world.

Savinda Ranathunga

International Consultant - Youth Empowerment, UNDP Asia Pacific

Biography:

Savinda has engaged in the development sector over the last 9 years through his engagement with AIESEC and other youth networks. He is passionate on empowering youth for sustainable development. He also served as the national director for social projects in AIESEC in Vietnam during the term 2014-15, which enabled him to get direct exposure to the challenges in Vietnamese society and co-create projects to address them through sustainable development goals approach.
Savinda also possess many experiences with the start-up eco system through his efforts in building 5 social enterprises. His passion is to create an enabling environment for the youth entrepreneurs in Asia-Pacific Region. Currently he is coordinating the regional youth project of UNDP Asia-Pacific and reading for his PhD in Youth and Social Entrepreneurship at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

More on Savi’s masterclass here

Seri Suryani (Singapore)

Chief Storyteller, School of Gumption

Biography:

Seri is is an aspiring social do-gooder and looking to harness the power of human creativity and play to ignite growth, innovation and social impact. Her journey with the School of Gumption is an ongoing part of her commitment to share, learn, grow and contribute to the social sector. She has been a branding person and a design thinker for the past 15+ years, she is also a LEGO Serious Playmaker/ Facilitator. Seri has been an active volunteer at Singapore Girls Home – a home for youth at risk and currently Muhammadiyah Welfare Home (Singapore) and work alongside the founder of Singapore’s first B Corp, Bettr Barista (2013) in building brand culture to around changing lives through coffee.

More on Seri’s workshop here

Serrie Fung (Hong Kong)

Independent Consultant

Biography:

Serrie is a branding and communications professional for social change organisations. She was most recently the communications lead at the Li & Fung Foundation, the corporate foundation of Li & Fung and the Fung Group, where she was responsible for the strategy and execution of inspiring a culture of purpose in over internal 40,000 stakeholders. Previously, Serrie was the marketing communications manager at Mother’s Choice, a charity serving pregnant teenagers and children without families, where she spearheaded a major rebrand and led initiatives to position Mother’s Choice as the organisation of choice for clients and supporters, and thought leader in the sector. She also co-founded Synergy Social Ventures, a nonprofit supporting startup social ventures in Southeast Asia and China. Serrie is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper Community, a network of young people selected for their talent, potential and commitment to make a difference in their community.

Previously: Senior manager, communications, campaigns and events, Li & Fung Foundation; marketing and communications manager, Mother’s Choice.

More on Serrie’s masterclass here

More on Serrie’s workshop here

Simon Gee (Australia)

Managing Director, TechSoup

Biography:

Simon Gee, Managing Director of TechSoup in the Asia-Pacific region, an international NGO with its head office in San Francisco, has over a decade of experience in the NGO and Technology sectors.

Simon is expanding the reach of TechSoup throughout the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the development and growth of TechSoup Asia-Pacific’s partner network of civil society organizations, technology and development partners in new countries & territories, from Korea and China, to Cambodia and Myanmar.

Under his leadership, TechSoup Asia-Pacific and its partner network of civil society organizations & technology partners have been able to deliver more than half a billion $USD worth of technology product donations, tools and philanthropic services to more than 35,000 NGOs, CSOs, charities and non-profits across 43 different countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Simon is passionate about the important role of the NGO and Technology sectors in creating positive outcomes for wider society. As a digital native who was mucking around building PC’s as a kid, he takes a breather from technology by tending to his garden/veggie patch and is a keen sports fan.

More on Simon’s big room here

Sreenivas Narayanan (Philippines)

Group Managing Director, ASSIST Asia

Biography:

Sreeni has extensive experience in the development sector spanning over two decades. A Chemical Engineer by training with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, he has led & been involved in development projects in over 20 countries across Asia.

His brainchild, the AsianNGO, is a one-stop set of interlined databases of funding and grant opportunities, partnership prospects, and learning resources for NGOs, nonprofits, and development organizations in Asia. It has become Asia’s leading platform supporting development organizations to address issues that they face.

Within the AsianNGO ecosystem is a quarterly publication called iMPACT Magazine, the first and only publication for Asia’s social sector. With online and print versions, iMPACT has become a great source of learning for development professionals. The magazine features insights, interviews and practical advice that cut across borders and themes, from some of the most innovative and influential minds in their industries.

Both AsianNGO and IMPACT are social ventures of the Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST), an NGO also founded and managed by Sreeni. It is an international, self-sustaining, Pan-Asian non-profit organization that promotes capacity building to achieve progress and profit in the region.

Sukich Udindu (Thailand)

Associate Dean, School of Development Studies, Thammasat University

Biography:

Sukich is known as a “CSR Man” due to his pioneer CSR work and long service in CSR society in Asia. He was a Vice President in CSR & Sustainable Development at The Minor International Group, one of the largest Asian Hospitality, Restaurant and Lifestyle Fashion Companies. He was a Vice Chairman and Founder of the “CSR Club” at the Stock Exchange of Thailand. He was the Chairman and Founder of the National CSR Committee … and many more. In Philanthropy, He was a Fundraising Director at CARE International Thailand, the Resource Development Advisor at Plan International, and Thailand Representative of AVPC Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium. He is also the Resource Alliance Board Member from Asia.

More on Sukich’s big room here

Toral Cowieson (USA)

Senior Director, Internet Society

Biography:

Toral is passionate about giving underrepresented voices an informed seat at the table — and leading exceptional teams that are focused on making an impact. Drawing from her experience in the private sector, Toral applies business fundamentals for social good. At the Internet Society, her team works with partners around the globe to identify and empower the next generation of technology, policy, and civic leaders who can advance the Internet of opportunity around the world. Originally from India, she remembers her parents waiting to make long distance calls back home after 10pm (rates were cheaper!). While traveling, she now connects with her family at all hours via wifi and FaceTime.

More on Toral’s workshop here

Varun Sheth (India)

CEO, Ketto

Biography:

With a background in finance and a foregrounding in genius. Varun is the founder and CEO of Asia’s largest crowdfunding website, Ketto. He was born and brought up in Mumbai and did his schooling in Jamnabai Narsee School and college in Narsee Monjee. Having always been interested in the financial sector, he went on to do a couple of financial programs that included chartered financial analyst (CFA) and financial risk management (FRM).

Varun volunteered extensively in the non-profit space while in college, having worked with . He worked NGOs such as The Akshara Foundation and Care India. He’s also an alumni of Dasra Social Impact, which gave him a deep understanding of the way NGOS work and the issues they face.

Recently, Varun was named top entrepreneur in Forbes Magazine’s 2017 30 under 30 issue.

More on Varun’s workshop here

Veronica Colondam (Indonesia)

Founder/CEO, YCAB Foundation

Biography:

Veronica is the founder and CEO of YCAB Foundation. YCAB is a social enterprise which focuses its work in the area of youth development, using financial inclusion to provide education for the underprivileged youth. Since its inception in 1999, YCAB has empowered more than three million youths in a sustainable way. YCAB retains the General Consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC and ranks #40 of top 500 NGOs in the world by Global Geneva, a Geneva-based NGO Advisor in January 2018.

YCAB believes that education is the basis to improve welfare therefore focuses on youth empowerment and livelihood. To date YCAB has touched the lives of 3+ million underprivileged youth through education and entrepreneurship.

Obtained her MSc. from Imperial College London and an alumnus of postgraduate program in Global Leadership Harvard Kennedy School (2008), MIT (2010) and Yale (2014); in Social Entrepreneurship (INSEAD, 2009); and in Impact Investing (Oxford, 2012). She’s Young Global Leader (2006), EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2011), Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2012), Forbes’ 48 Asian Philanthropist (2015), and recently, awardee of the UN Solution Maker 2017.

More on Veronica’s big room here

Vikram Chowdhary (Australia)

Acquisition Manager, The Fred Hollows Foundation

Biography:

Vikram is a highly driven fundraiser with over eight years of experience in senior roles in the fundraising industry, with expertise in donor acquisition through direct mail, telemarketing and F2F fundraising. Combining a data-led approach with highly developed leadership skills and a strong track record of growing income, Vikram also has been recognised in the industry as an expert in individual giving. He currently is the acquisition manager with The Fred Hollows Foundation and has worked with Australia for UNHCR, Amnesty International and Pareto Fundraising.

More about Vikram’s masterclass here.

More about Vikram’s workshop here.

Dr. Vincent Aloysius (Thailand)

CEO, Ecocycle

Biography:

Dr. Vincent Aloysius is the CEO of Ecocycle, a sustainable resource recovery and environmental solutions business. Ecocycle is a subsidiary of Siam City Cement Group. Vincent has for more than twenty years in the cement industry focused on environment management and sustainable development efforts. Before taking up his current role in Thailand, he led a similar business in Indonesia, providing sustainable waste recovery solutions to leading companies. Vincent was prior to this a business development consultant, supporting the start-up and development of this green, sustainable resource recovery solutions business in several countries in the region.

More on Vincent’s masterclass here

Vincent Paul Atienza (Philippines)

Associate Director, Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation

Biography:

Vincent Paul “Vip” Atienza is currently the Associate Director for Fundraising Services and Development Partnerships at Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) and is consistently managing projects in partnership with UNICEF & UNHCR.

He is a seasoned Communications professional with over 14 years of experience in both private and non-profit organizations.He has over a decade of experience in Operations and Client Relationship Management and has assumed high level positions such as Program Director and General Manager for private companies.

His wide array of skills include: Communications, Business Development, Client Solutions Management, and Performance Management/Improvement, among others. His leadership skills are proven by his capability to manage teams with over 1000 people performing outbound sales and customer service. He has implemented projects in collaboration with organizations such as DEG, ADB, GIZ, USAID and UNIDO, to name a few.

More on Vincent’s masterclass here

More in Vincent’s workshop here

Wajiha Qayoom (Pakistan)

COO & Management Consultant, Elements Communique

Biography:

Wajiha has been a part of the development sector for 15 years as a communication and management strategist. She has a passion for storytelling that she used to bridge the gap between the non-profits partners she worked with and corporations wanting to do good.

As part of a pioneering social enterprise platform developing nonprofit fundraising models, she had the opportunity to work closely with non-profits in multiple causes. She has worked with multiple organisations all over Pakistan as a board member and advisor, innovating, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change. She has originated concepts for the needs of those who serve and those who deserve.

Wajiha  is also the  co-founder of a social enterprise dedicated to corporate social responsibility. She has worked with multiple national and international corporations, as well as foundations, by helping them create a wider impact. She has also written & read papers on social enterprise and the dynamics of corporate response to philanthropy at Oxford University, London in collaboration with London South Bank University. She is also part of a coalition of social enterprises working to train the upcoming generation of fundraisers, where she has worked with teams of five non-profits.

More on Wajiha’s workshop here

Wayne Chia (Singapore)

Innovative Programmes Lead - Asia P3 Hub, World Vision International (South Asia & Pacific)

Biography:

As a tech and business enthusiast, Wayne is always on the lookout for interesting innovations and strategies that serve to create, explore, optimise, bridge and share. Previously the co-founder of Techsailor, a digital company specialising in social, mobile and location-based (SoLoMo) solutions, he helped to run and grow the business until it was acquired by TO THE NEW Digital, where he continued to lead the marketing services division in Southeast Asia for another two years. Currently with Asia P3 Hub, Asia’s first multisector partnership incubator, Wayne is in the process of consolidating everything he has accumulated in the past decade, as well as exploring new possibilities.

More on Wayne’s workshop here

Woodrow Rosenbaum (Canada)

Owner, With Intent

Biography:

As founder and CEO of With Intent, an international consumer marketing agency, Woodrow has a long history of building top consumer brands. Woodrow has helped companies and brands to define strategies, develop new business and expand their markets. In the non-profit sector he has conducted research and analysis of individual giving behaviours; engaged with thousands of charities regarding fundraising strategies and trends; and has engaged millions of donors on topics related to giving and volunteering through traditional and social media.

More on Woodrow’s masterclass here

More on Woodrow’s workshop here